SAIFR:3450

Diving into the details of continuous wave-searches, and prospects for the future

(2023). Diving into the details of continuous wave-searches, and prospects for the future. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/3450

Diving into the details of continuous wave-searches, and prospects for the future. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, May. 11, 2023, https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/3450 

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            keywords = {ICTP-SAIFR, IFT, UNESP},
            language = {en},
            title = {Diving into the details of continuous wave-searches, and prospects for the future},
            publisher = { ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research},
            year = {2023},
            month = {may},
            note = {SAIFR:3450 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/3450}}
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Andrew Miller
Talk numberSAIFR:3450
Source RepositoryICTP – SAIFR
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

Abstract: In this chalktalk, I will delve into details of how I actually performed searches for, and set constraints on, continuous waves from neutron stars and dark matter. I will first focus on constraints on the millisecond pulsar hypothesis for the GeV excess and the existence of asteroid-mass primordial black holes using upper limits from all-sky searches for neutron stars. Then, I will detail the methods that I used to search for the direct detection of dark matter with gravitational-wave detectors, and how I developed a method, based on the Hough Transform, to search for planetary-mass primordial black holes in current-generation detectors, and binary neutron star inspirals in future ground-based detectors. I will show that these continuous-wave methods can easily apply to data from future ground- and space-based detectors, and inherently solve many specific problems that matched-filtering algorithms will face in the future (overlapping signals, non-stationarity of the noise, and gaps in data collection). I will also devote a portion of this chalktalk to future projects that could be undertaken at ICTP-SAIFR with Bachelors, Masters, and PhD students.